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From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: wish list - edit message
Message-ID: <255@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 2 Jun 89 01:45:36 GMT
Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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I still find myself going back to SCO's mail (that's mailx or Mail to you
bub) an awful lot.  The reason is that I review my "sentmail" folders
once a month, clean them up and archive them.  Generally this consists
of two actions -- deleteing the dozens of dinky test messages I mail out
every month, and replacing huge shar archives I mail to somebody with a
note something like:

	{{{ deleted shar archive of foobar V2.3 }}}

The problem is that the Elm "e" command is truly an edit mailbox command.
What I would like to do is just edit that one message, and the standard
mail reader does this very nicely.  Using Elm to do this is extremely
awkward.

Am I alone in this ... or is this feature something others might find
helpful in a future Elm release?
-- 
Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom